- From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) <len.bullard@intergraph.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 08:11:38 -0500
- To: 'Stuart Williams' <skw@hp.com>
- Cc: "'www-tag@w3.org'" <www-tag@w3.org>
I pulled the Gruber reference from an article I wrote for the defunct MIT Markup Languages magazine. It referenced the following articles: [Gruber 1993] Gruber, Thomas. "Toward Principles for the Design of Ontologies Used in Knowledge Sharing". http://ksl-web.stanford.edu/knowledge-sharing/papers/onto-design.rtf [Gruber 1997] Gruber, Tom. "What is an Ontology?" http://www-ksl.stanford.edu/kst/what-is-an-ontology.html From: www-tag-request@w3.org [mailto:www-tag-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Stuart Williams >I think of it in the traditional sense of "ontological >commitment" per Thomas Gruber. > >"An ontology should require the minimal ontological >commitment sufficient to support the intended knowledge >sharing activities... Since ontological commitment is based >on consistent use of vocabulary, ontological commitment can >be minimized by specifying the weakest theory (allowing >the most models) and defining only those terms which are >essential to the communication of knowledge consistent >with that theory." > > Cool... I should read some more of him.
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